(Hellenistic Greek Art [continued (6))[– 16-pointed star][28th January 1991]

[Redbook8:201][19910128:1247f](Hellenistic Greek Art [continued (6))[– 16-pointed star][28th January 1991]

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[A photocopy in the ms of a photograph of what is thought to be the funeral casket of Philip of Macedon, from Encylopaedia of Visual Art 1:161, is not reproduced in the ts but is described in the ms as follows:]

The gold casket in the marble sarcophagus near the centre of the back wall of the inner chamber of the Tomb [presumed to be of]* Philip of Macedon.

On the lid is a multi-rayed star:** the emblem of the Macedonian Royal Family.***

*[Square brackets per ms]

**[16-pointed]

***(ref earlier [], re TV programme?)

[Unclear to what this refers]

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